Bob Stolt has concentrated his practice on civil trial work since 1973. He has represented state and local government, testified before many legislative committees to protect the rights of his small business and personal injury clients and represented personal injury clients in all the courts of the State of Maine.

For over 25 years, Bob has aggressively represented people for personal injuries sustained in automobile crashes, from dangerous and defective products and from the negligence of doctors and hospitals. Bob has obtained substantial verdicts and settlements for his clients.

Areas of Practice: Personal Injury Litigation, Plaintiff's Malpractice, and Products Liability Law, General Litigation, Workers' Compensation, Social Security and Maine State Employee Disability Retirement.

Admitted to the bar in 1973, Maine, Massachusetts and U.S. District Court, District of Maine; First Circuit Court of Appeals; 1976, U.S. Supreme Court.

Education: University of Maine (B.A., 1966); New England School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1973). Editor-in-Chief, New England Law Review, 1972-1973.

Author: Trial Handbook for Maine Lawyers, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, 1991; Litigating Tort Cases, Chapter 30, “Collateral Source / Third Party Payor; Duty to Mitigate Damages,” ATLA Press, Thomson / West (2003)

Career: Assistant Attorney General, 1973-1976; Commissioner of Personnel, 1976-1979; Deputy Attorney General, 1979-1985; Lipman & Katz, P.A., 1985- .

Member: Kennebec County and Maine State Bar Associations; John Waldo Ballou American Inn of Court; Maine Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1998-2006; President, 1996-1997); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America/American Association of Justice (Member, Board of Governors, 1997- 2006); Leaders Forum, 2003-; American Board of Trial Advocacy (National Board of Directors, 1996-2000, Director-at-Large, 2000 and 2006; Maine Chapter, Treasurer, 1997-1998; Vice President, 1998-2000 and 2006-; President, 2000-2001); Maine Medico-Legal Society (Member, Board of Directors, 1995-2001; Vice President, 1996-1999; President, 1999-2001). Academy of Catastrophic Injury Attorneys/Academy of Trial Advocacy, 2005 - ; Litigation Advisory Board, 2005 - ; Inducted as a Charter Member into the Litigation Counsel of America, a Trial Lawyer Honorary Society composed of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers, 2007 - ; Selected to Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of medical malpractice law 2008, 2009 and 2010. Selection to Best Lawyers in America bases on an exhaustive and rigorous peer review survey comprising more than two million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys of the country. For 25 years, Best Lawyers in America has been regarded – by both the profession and the public - as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. Aletheia Institute, Founding Member and Doyen of the Board of Regents 2009-; Member of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court Committee on the Media and the Courts 1999 - ; Maine Board of Bar Overseers, Professional Ethics Commission, 2009- ; University of Maine Augusta, Board of Visitors, 2003-2007 and 2008-2011.